Testing Contemporaneity and Averaging Radiocarbon Dates

TLDR

The paper presents techniques for pragmatically interpreting arrays of radiocarbon dates. It employs weighted averaging, statistical rejection of data, and contemporaneity evaluation. The authors discuss common situations and illustrate the procedures with several real examples. This work is Contribution No.

Abstract

Abstract Techniques for pragmatically interpreting arrays of radiocarbon dates are given. These include weighted averaging, statistical rejection of data, and the evaluation of contemporaneity. Commonly encountered situations are discussed with several actual examples to illustrate these procedures. This paper is Contribution No. 70, Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona.